I tried growing veg in hoop houses, but hadn't prepared for THIS!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Hi all 👋 Despite storm Kathleen and contradicting windy weather reports, last weekend I decided to fight it and plant all the vegetable seedlings I had ready in every one of my super strong hoop houses.
As I'm fairly new to growing veg (or at least having a kitchen garden), I've had to constantly do hours of research for spacings, companion planting, etc.
And all was going great for a few days on our first ever farm - no sign of pests or break-ins to my raised protected raised beds, until I realised we had problems.
I also film an update on the Boltardy beetroot, Nantes carrots, Lisbon spring onions, main and early crop potatoes.
Here's what I planted & used:
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Add a strip of copper tape around the outside of the raised beds. It'll reduce issues with slugs. I say reduce, rather than remove, as eggs often get transferred in within soil and compost.
Thanks! I'll give that a go for any extra beds I make without netting
Copper doesn't work to repel slugs and snails, it has been tested many times and you can find plenty of videos on youtube. Egg shells don't work as well. You are better off buying some organic blue pellets, those kill them off quite effectively.
Personally I find dealing with slugs and snails the best way is to do a late night circuit of your garden with a torch and pick them off or use beer traps. I find copper and other barriers pretty ineffective unfortunately even though they are popularly recommended.
I agree. BBQ pincers are perfect for the job.
It's so strange... not seen any at night yet... only near the lake. Not sure leatherjackets are visible like that at night
I'm tired at night and ready to hit the sack at 9 ish😅.
My goodness Vikkie, you do work hard. I can't wait for the boat reveal. Great idea to do up those sheds. You are making such good progress everywhere. I bet your head is buzzing at night about what you are going to do next. 🤗
Loving the update on your babies. Those transplanting trowels are very useful. Have a look into earthing up potatoes. Yours look ready to be covered over. I've had problems in the past with mice and sweetcorn. I heard some people putting socks over the ears of corn to stop mice. Not tried it though.
Hi I'm interested in the boat when you clear the area please let me know
Nettles, especially young, are salad, soup, bread, pancakes... (use like spinach)
Nice to hear you referencing Charles Dowding, King of ‘no dig.’ What a beautiful garden setup you’ve created!
Fab garden! I commented a few videos back when you were planting carrot seed. They need to be kept moist. I noticed at both 2:50 and again at 23:40 the soil in the carrot bed looked dry. I still suggest that you dampen the rows and place boards upon them for better germination. Or experimant on a few rows.
Yes, the board idea for carrots is legit. I just did a version of that in my carrot grow bags, so far so good.
What have you had success with growing??
Mostly hair, but when I was younger you could grow your own cannabis without any problems in your own garden/balcony. ;-)
I would recommend to look how nematodes can help you with several pests.
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=nematodes+against+snails
Greetings from the Netherlands.
I love these raised bed covers! Thanks for sharing this. What a wonderful property you have. :)
Thanks so much 🥰
*Good luck sorting out that nasty bug eating your veges 🙂.*
I would add another 6-10 corn seeds to that bed Vikki. Corn does much better in clumps than rows as it is self pollinating and needs to rub together. Closer planting improves cob yields. The long bed would be an ideal candidate for no-dig. You've mentioned this before so as a reminder Charles Dowding method is here: ruclips.net/video/0LH6-w57Slw/видео.html
Thanks so much! They haven't grown yet, so as a back up, I have double the amount now successfully growing in my greenhouse which I'll be transplanting when ready 😀
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you have a hard standing floor EG Concreet, The organic matter will not compost down
it relies on the bacteria from the soil to turn your leftover food and things from the garden into compost. Good luck with the project.
You're making me reconcider now... doing some more research after what you said, it does seem that you get better results being over the soil, think i might build some nice compartments with a shelter
and use that outbuilding with hard standing for something else instead now..😅
I’m trying Diatomaceous Earth this year to cut down on scorpions, but it does work with snails and slugs. I don’t mind killing the scorpions, but I really like the idea left here about copper tape on the edges to keep the others out. Things still land on the leaves, but my garden is so small anything being nibbled is removed as soon as I see it. I’d watch any videos you make. Shorts too. You’re living my tiny farm dream. Undoable in a desert. I just don’t do other social media.
I bought a cheap green house on Amazon and am having a blast. So I know over the moon with your set up. Your getting so skinny eat a pizza once in awhile.
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Love this weeks video !!!
Can’t wait to see the boat 🚤 pulled out of the paddock.
Great that the sheds cleaned out so you can fill it up with wood 🪵 for the winter
Cheers 🥂
Have a great week
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any plans to have a little shop to sell the veg/herbs etc. and maybe eggs when the chicken come lol
Haha... I'm not sure I could cope with chickens pecking at my food 😆 It is something I'd like to consider later... a once a week stall or something, or a local delivery service, but I'll see if I'm good at growing veg first 😅🤞🤞
Love your channel to bits, but can you go back inside? I need to learn stuff 😂
😆😆😆 I will be soon once the garden is set up.... promise!!!
An affordable way to cover the garden is ikea lill.
I just built another small raised bed, I wish I had the land you have, 2.4m x 1m and my neighbour supplied my with eight 20l bags of top soil.
My dog Apollo is obsessed with the new top soil and keeps trying to eat it.
Smelling the top soil is smells a little like cow so I am guessing the secret ingredient was cow manure. Apollo has previous with that stuff as on a wall in Wales (on lead) he decided to scoop up a fresh pat, he was munching away as it hung out of his mouth. Thank goodness I had control of Zeus that was stepping around them.
Dogs are the oddest creatures at times.
Your neighbouring badgers love leather jackets👍
When I had an Allotment - My neighbour grew sweetcorn - The next year I spent days trying to RID!! My plot of the dang things - They SPREAD like Sycamore Trees - And if You've EVER lived within a couple of hundred yards of one of THOSE! You'll know the problem .... I've already had over 4 hours in the garden plucking them out of every nook & cranny this year already - I'll have to have another go next week - AND the week after probably! .... And it's NOT! my tree .... Grrrrr!!!!!!! 😠😡😡 .... Your veggy-patches coming on a Treat! though ... Good luck! 🤠
Hans the collie flower
😆 we often call him hans the collie wollie 🤣
Slugs and snails you have to look for them at night and dispose of them with extreme prejudice!
Long BBQ pincers are very useful for this job, as are children - I used to be paid 20p for every slug or snail I could remove from our garden. I once earnt £10 for an ice-cream box full of slugs.
@@HouseFairyDIYwow.... I would've done that for 20p each time 😂😂😂😂
@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK My mother underestimated my determination to earn money and underestimated the number of slugs in the garden 😂
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I think Chickens love grubs! If you have any close by ... chickens, that is!😅
The beetroot will grow in clumps but you tend to end up with lots of small ones if you separate them they will grow alot bigger. You need some chickens now. Making a chicken coop and pen would be a good project.
Thank you for the update, things have moved along a lot 😳 As a RUclipsr it was great to hear you say ‘not sponsored’ 👍 Really hope you manage to keep it that way. So many channels get ruined with sponsorship deals. You keeping it real is a big thing in my eyes. 🙂
God im so jealous of you guys and that lovely property! Place is looking amazing!
You might regret that configuration of raised beds and hinged hoop houses. Ideally you don’t want to be on your knees and over reaching. Your back won’t thank you for it.
A French Chenille hoop house system would be better for accessing your raised beds from both sides but still allow you to use a variety of different covers.
You could do with a path to walk through the long line of hoop houses to encourage you to walk to the other side to access the other side of the raised beds instead of over reaching.
Transplant your seedlings a lot deeper into the soil.
Sow a lot of sunflowers and sweetcorn on a different patch of land. This will help you grow lots of browns (dried stalks) for your compost material. Whether you direct seed or grow in modules is up to you but you need to grow browns.
Don’t forget to harvest seeds from your sunflowers and sweetcorn (as long as they are open pollinated varieties) so you never need to buy seeds again. Same goes for your other veg.
Any plans for chickens 🐓
Maybe... not sure get. Would love the eggs and would have a lot of fun making a big chicken coop and pen. But wouldn't want them pecking at my crops 😅
I keep worrying about you but then you publish a new video of you having achieved so much more than I expected! You're made of tough stuff! Annoying about the beetles but it should be short-lived. Hopefully, next year they will be gone. Have you got started on tomatoes? I cannot recommend cherry tomatoes enough. Very productive and easy. Make an 8 foot support and pluck out the suckers and you they will grow like grapes on a vine.
Slugs and Snails have a 250 meter memory. Throwing them over the neighbours fence is not an option.
Ducks 🦆 are a viable alternative.
A spray of WD40 around the outside of containers apparently works well too.
Nettles are a great source of fertiliser also comfrey if you have any (and it's free). Find an area that you don't need that has nettles and just leave it alone. You can harvest from it and the insects love it.
It seemingly makes an edible soup (never tried it) the cooking kills the sting. 🤔👍 P.s. Our peas never reach the kitchen, they're eaten straight off the vine, yumm.
Stinging yourself with early nettles also helps to protect from hayfever.
You may need an organic with your sweetcorn. Maybe even the tomatoes. Fish usually works here in Canada.
All looking good Vikkie, you've been busy. Nematodes could be the solution to your leatherjacket problem. I am having terrible slug issues at present, they have demolished 3 very large pumpkin plants I put in that had been a source of pride when I grew them, gutted to have lost them. Likewise my carrot seedlings are all gone. Time for some beer traps.
Sorry to hear that!! I have ordered Nemasys Nematodes and it'll be here on Tuesday and hopefully I can control it. But oddly, not seen any slugs as of yet at night, but probably will eventually. I'll definitely try a beer trap!
I think they are cut worms the eat the stalks then plants fall over, if you wrap a piece of tin foil around the stalk it will stop them
really look forward to your vids coming up, you should be on the tv.. so entertaining..
Great vid,I used to grow plants a few years ago,I just stopped for no reason,I have the bug again…..Thanks
We're did you get netting from how much please
Hi, I ordered 2 types from Premier Netting. This is the ultrafine £1.49 a metre premiernetting.co.uk/catalog/insect-mesh-woven-ultrafine-net-1m-2m-or-3m-wide-by-the-metre.html
And the fine (1.6mm hole weave) 98p a metre premiernetting.co.uk/catalog/insect-netting-fine-woven-mesh-1-6mm-by-the-metre.html
I did see some flea beetles on my Pak Choi the other night through the cheaper weave (not seen since though), so would try and get the ultrafine next time if feeling flush
Both are strong though. You could drop them a message for samples first before ordering as I did
I’m loving your place the more I see of it vikkie I can’t wait till all your veg is grown to see how much you get xx
Are you still going to do you bungalow reservation on the channel aswell. Love the gardening videos.
Absolutely !!!
Everything is useable at the minute, so we thought we would prioratise work on the outside while we considered our options for the inside.
And i feel like i've been trapped inside for months because of the weather.
You are amazing , and a great video V , the beds are looking great can’t be how much work you’ve gotten through in such a short time , well done , G
You should make your own patio stones. 2 x 2. Good for gardening stuff
Brilliant border collie. I had one as a child. I would buy him tomorrow.
Nice to see you back. Watching with interest as our onions and peapods are now sprouting along with garlic cloves. So far, no pests.
That's great news! Have you added any protection to them?
@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK not yet, but one to do this week.
might be great if you grew some apples, pears, and damsons, berries, something for the summers ahead, ginseng, rhubarb and ginger are good staples, I did try doing a herb garden but I lost it in the rains last year
I thought England had alot of hares. Havent seen one yet 😅
It is very impressive how far ya'll have come with your property. Won't be long before you will have a proper farm.
Does make me chuckle when RUclipsrs say "this is not sponsored, I paid my own money". By inference it's a genuine recommendation as opposed to something they're just paid to say.
No offence meant, just a bit amusing
I have to laugh at myself saying it too, but you're right
I've had people in the past saying " this is an advert!" When it's not and i've spend good money on stuff.
you'll know it's an adert 🤣
Great stuff 😊
Thanks! 😊
Oh no. I didn’t want to be a Debbie downer when I saw that you were going to use the manure pile so I didn’t say anything but I thought that was a bad idea. Even using free wood chips can come with unwanted pests. Be careful, you’ve put a lot of work into this😘 Good luck, I’m sure you’ll figure something out.
Yep.... sadly I think that's where they've come from. I've checked all of the hoop housing.. there's no gaps big enough for slugs and snails to get through!
Have you got any plans for a polytunnel ?. That would be a great addition and the sheer size of some of them, I think would be ideal for you.
No at the moment, but would love one eventually 😀
With Hans being like that with the hose, Amazon Irrigation Nozzles. You can pick 30up for a tenner. Run a hose into each bed with nozzles, and you don't have to fight him off, just turn the tap off and on
Thanks! I think this may be my next obsession 😅😅
Hi just laughing at your dog what breed is he ,roy copenhagen denmark.
Hello, he's a border collie... or when he climbs into the bed, a collie-flower. 😁
Can you please convert the wind speeds into MPH for your English viewers?
Sorry... I'll Google it next time. Google weather only tells me in KMH and can't change the setting. I only know a high number is bad 😅
@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK You do of course realise it was sarcasm? An English lady in an English garden talking about the most English of subjects the weather and then using KPH .......oh the shame😮💨
Well, you were the 2nd to bring it up... wasn't sure 🤔 😆
youre so awesome and i think youre beautiful. great work on the homestead! best of luck
Aww, thanks so much ❤️
I went to a lecture by Charles Dowding some years ago. It was very interesting.
Have you been to one of his courses?
I do fancy going on one of his tours!! No I haven't, but currently listening to his No Dig audiobook, following his succession planting calendar and have signed up to his newsletter :)
Where’s the boat! Drag it out !
Your doing a grand job there CD
Wow
You really went for it with the raised beds
Is this filmed last year because you’re ground is so much drier than we’re i live
No... it was filmed last week
Love your videos thank you
LMAO! Collies! they'll do anything if they think it pleases you.
He's a very loyal pooch 🥰
If it is slugs you need a slug pub!
Thanks! No, they're not slugs. They're leatherjackets
No tomatoes or cucumbers
So impressed with how well everything is growing Vikkie. Time to try growing some fruit now? 😋
We do need to plant some fruit trees soon for an orchard :)
Now that is a great rack ?
On the topic of spacing. I've definitely landed firmly in the camp of; ignore row spacing measures.
The space between each seed/transplant is important but the row spacing (which is always far wider than the plant spacing) is largely a measure of mechanical farming. The spacing is intended to allow you to run certain equipment between the rows without disturbing the plants.
In a home garden (particularly raised beds) where you aren't running tractors over your beds.... row spacing is meaningless, use the plant spacing for both.
Some may argue against this and they might be right but I've never run across an issue packing those beds a little fuller.
Copper strips SHOULD stop slugs 😂 mph vickie don't forget you're uk audience!
Thanks! And lol... I wish Google weather told me in mph!!!!!! I can't convert it 😆😆
@TheCarpentersDaughterUK I can't convert either,age is shit 😩 you have plants aplenty what about giraffes,hippos,cows for milk,pigs for meat 😂😂😂😂 have you see "the restoration couple-outdoor farm" ????
Onions sets are not good they just bolt you need to grow them from seed but it’s too late now ❤
That's interesting... never heard that before!
With a covered raised bed that stops birds getting to the soil, I feel safe in using slug pellets. A more expensive but effective method is to buy the predatory nematodes that target slugs. The other tip is to raise plants to a larger size before planting them out. Also I find some plants seem less likely to be targeted by slugs. For example red leaves lettuce seem to be ignored by slugs for some reason. Or at least Hertfordshire slugs seem to avoid them!
Cut worms are a b**ger. hope your organic treatment works!
I do not bother thinning out beetroot’s, of course it’s down to personal choice, but I find they all grow to a reasonable size. You can twist out golf ball size ones leaving others go get larger if that’s your thing. Mind you I am all for avoiding jobs!
I love Romanesco. I hope you get your bugs under control.
Me too. What inspired me to buy the seeds were that I saw a veg stall outside a garden centre selling romanesco for £3 each!!!!!! And people were actually buying them 🤯
You guys really are living the Good Life 😂 Love it! When I was a kid (a good 30 years ago) my neighbour / not real uncle used to grow veg and peas straight out of the pod were the best! It's one thing that make me really want to start growing veg now. If you do want to sell Hanns for being cheeky I want to be first in line 😂 He is such a sweetheart! Obviously well trained (most of the time!) Failing that seeing how he loves a raised bed could I grow my own? Haha
Get some Bocking 14 Comfrey root cuttings. Start growing comfrey somewhere and propagate by taking root cuttings. Comfrey will give you lots of biomass for your compost. Other benefits of growing comfrey too such as using it as a fertiliser, attracts bees and more.
For the composting station you will need to try to kill off the ivy as much as possible... ivy meets compost... huge amounts of ivy everywhere.
You and Mr TCD are going to be eating a lot of salad.
I'm very happy with that 😆😆
I have to acknowledge MCDTV for doing a great job as your cameraman😊
If you like chillies, I'd definitely grow some in your greenhouse. Great video as always. ☺️
Noticing the difference between this and the last video, I started to wonder if you guys ever sleep. Thank Hans for me, I got a lot of laughs out of him this time.
The most prolific plant I grow is runner beans. Very easy to grow, with big yield.
It's a lot of work there for you but still makes me envious of the room and out buildings you have .bet your dog is loving it, keep up the good work and content thankyou
It looks amazing. Impressive seeing so much growing in such a short time.
Proper diy stu did a compost area that is similar to your situation couple of years back
Thanks so much! Yes, I've watched Stuart's compost video twice now 😆
@TheCarpentersDaughterUK he makes everything look so easy and often it is.
Personally I'd use the grow bags for potatoes and root crops or a single courgette plant a number of closely planted lettuce or chard but if you are going to use them for broadbeans put at least 6 or 10 but remember they will need sturdy suports
Get a Doberman.. they run away from hoses.
On a side note I am up for rehoming! ;)
It's always worth remembering about letting nature do it's thing. If you cover your crops, there is a chance that slugs, aphids etc will still get into your beds but as the beds are covered the birds that eat the slugs etc can't get at the pests to eat them. Nature is a wonderful thing.
Love your videos whatever that are about, gardening, woodwork, lofts etc.
Coming along just great Vikkie glad your voice is better, you will be getting orders for all that veg, or how about a small farm shop 😊
aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they tasted lovely,what's next
I hope they will (and nothing else gets to them before me 😅)
I love your videos, I want to see garding videos all the time :-)
I tried sweetcorn but there are so sensitive, I never got good results. I hope you do better.
Nematodes for leatherjackets
Thanks! Are they effective because that's what I've ordered. They'll be here on Tuesday
@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK I've been told they are, you can different types, depending on the pest you have. Good luck 🤞
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These videos are on a trend of getting longer and longer :(
Sorry to see your sad face. What's your ideal length?
@@TheCarpentersDaughterUK probably 20 minutes
Leatherjackets and Schaefer grubs are a bugger to get rid of.
That is what I'm afraid of 😔 Especially as it will get costly to try a fight them.if we try and grow on much more square footage!
What do those grubs turn into?
I think Daddy Long Legs
Still watching in Budapest, 😀
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Thanks so much! 🥰 You're so kind!
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